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Re: Stereo?

I have a 1994 Jetta GL.  I bought the wiring harness from Crutchfield.
Plugged right in, no problems.  They even have a harness for the amplified
speakers (on the bose units).

Eric


On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Mark A Williams wrote:

> Heya, everybody,
>     I'm looking to put a new head unit in my '95 Jetta GLX -- I've got
> the unit already, in my old car (Bronco II).  The people at circuit city
> are contractually obligated to take my Pioneer out of the Bronco.  I
> thought since I'm an electrical engineer I'd do the VW install myself--I
> can work a soldering iron with the best of 'em.  When I asked them if
> they had the right wiring harnesses and adapters and such, they fed me a
> load of stuff like:
>  "I don't think that has a wiring harness"
>  "I think the speakers in those cars are individually amplified, you
> might want us to do it, since it could be a lot of rewiring"
>  "You might have to buy a new CD player to make that work."
> 
> And other such crap.  Now I know that some Jettas are like that (with
> individually amped speakers, or so I've heard from friends), but how can
> I tell if mine is like that?  I don't trust these Circuit Shitty
> salesmen any further than I can throw them (can you say "working on
> commission"?), and I _will_not_ pay them to do something I can do
> myself.  The Bentley manual has been fairly unhelpful in this particular
> department.
> 
> A little info on my car/stereo:
>     --1995 OBDI A3 Jetta GLX
>     --It's the standard-issue tape-deck head ("Premium Audio", I think...)
>        with cd changer controller (but no CD changer, hence the swap!),     
>        security code thinger, etc.
>     --No speakers in the rear deck
>     --One larger speaker in all four doors, near the bottom
>     --one tiny speaker in each _rear_ door, near the top, in front
>     --two speakers in the dash
> 
> I don't mind paying to have the job done well, but I hate to be taken
> for a sucker, so anything at all would be great help.
> 
> --Mark
> '95 J3 GLX Blk/blk 
>